Lost in the Jungle; Narrated for Young PeopleDu Chaillu, Paul B. (Paul Belloni)
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Lost in the Jungle; Narrated for Young People
Du Chaillu, Paul B. (Paul Belloni)
Africa, West -- Description and travel; Africa, West -- Description and travel -- Juvenile literature
CHAPTER IX. We hear the Cry of a young Gorilla.--Start to
capture him.--Fight with "his Father."--We kill him.--Kill the
Mother.--Capture of the Baby.--Strange Camp Scene. 70
CHAPTER X. Jack will have his own way.--He seizes my
Leg.--He tears my Pantaloons.--He growls at me.--He refuses
cooked Food.--Jack makes his Bed.--Jack sleeps with one Eye
open.--Jack is intractable. 81
CHAPTER XI. Start after Land-crabs.--Village of the
Crabs.--Each Crab knows his House.--Great flight of
Crabs.--They bite hard.--Feast on the Slain.--A herd
of Hippopotami. 87
CHAPTER XII. Strange Spiders.--The House-spider.--How they
capture their Prey.--How they Fight.--Fight between a Wasp
and a Spider.--The Spider has its Legs cut off, and is carried
away.--Burrow Spider watching for its Prey. 94
CHAPTER XIII. We continue our Wanderings.--Joined by Etia.--We
starve.--Gambo and Etia go in search of Berries.--A herd of
Elephants.--The rogue Elephant charges me.--He is killed.--He
tumbles down near me.--Story of Redjioua. 106
CHAPTER XIV. A formidable Bird.--The People are afraid of
it.--A Baby carried off by the Guanionien.--A Monkey also
seized.--I discover a Guanionien Nest.--I watch for the Eagles. 119
CHAPTER XV. The Cascade of Niama-Biembai.--A native
Camp.--Starting for the Hunt.--A Man attacked by a
Gorilla.--His Gun broken.--The Man dies.--His Burial. 127
CHAPTER XVI. Funeral of the Gorilla's Victim.--A Man's Head
for the Alumbi.--The Snake and the Guinea-fowl.--Snake
killed.--Visit to the House of the Alumbi.--Determine to
visit the Sea-coast. 137
CHAPTER XVII. At Washington once more.--Delights of the
Sea-shore.--I have been made a Makaga.--Friends object to
my Return into the Jungle.--Quengueza taken Sick.--Gives a
Letter to his Nephew.--Taking leave. 142
CHAPTER XVIII. Departure.--Arrival at Goumbi.--The People
ask for the King.--A Death-panic in Goumbi.--A Doctor sent
for.--Death to the Aniembas.--Three Women accused.--They are
tried and killed. 148
CHAPTER XIX. Quengueza orders Ilogo to be consulted about
his Illness.--What the People think of Ilogo.--A nocturnal
Séance.--Song to Ilogo.--A female Medium.--What Ilogo said. 162
CHAPTER XX. Departure from Goumbi.--Querlaouen's Village.--Find
it deserted.--Querlaouen dead.--He has been killed by an
Elephant.--Arrive at Obindji's Town.--Meeting with Querlaouen's
Widow.--Neither Malaouen nor Gambo at home. 167
CHAPTER XXI. Leave for Ashira Land.--In a Swamp.--Cross the
Mountains.--A Leopard after us.--Reach the Ashira Country. 175
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